Amazon brings local deals to the UK, first stop London

September 14, 2012 By 1 Comment

Move over Groupon and company, just over a year since launching local deals in the US, Amazon has introduced a similar service in the UK.

AmazonLocal offers restaurant, spa deals, events and other experiences and is currently limited to London with the company saying nothing about plans to extend to other regions.

All deals are being sourced by Amazon with a team of sales people working with local businesses.

In the US, where the daily deals service is available in more than 40 locations, it is believed some deals are sourced by Living Social, of which Amazon is the biggest shareholder.

US users also got access to a new Amazon deals application for iPhone in the past few days so it’s likely that a UK/European version won’t be too far behind.

The online retail giant has also just launched its appstore in Europe giving Android users access to a range of apps including the Skyscanner service.

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Linda Fox About Linda Fox

Linda Fox is a reporter for Tnooz. For the past six years she has worked as a freelance journalist across a range of B2B titles including Travolution, ABTA Magazine, Travelmole and the Business Travel Magazine.

In this time she has also undertaken corporate projects for a number of high profile travel technology, travel management and research companies.

Prior to her freelance career she covered hotels and technology news for Travel Trade Gazette for seven years. Linda joined TTG from Caterer & Hotelkeeper where she worked on the features desk for more than five years.

Comments

  1. Hhotelconsult says:
    October 30, 2012 at 5:19 pm

    This is going to grow into something bigger than just coupons. For sure. Very interesting. I am way late on this.

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